Explore expert tips and techniques for maximizing BPC Facilitate fast and accurate reporting with the EPM Excel Add-In, the new Script Logic Editor, and the enhanced reporting component Upload, extract data, and create enterprise reports Covers BPC 10.0, EPM 10.0, and BW 7.3 Take the labor-intensive guess-work out of number crunching, financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting With data at your fingertips and this comprehensive guide to BPC, quickly model new business scenarios and efficiently create and approve plans, budgets, and forecasts. Written for today s busy financial consultants, business developers, and financial analysts, this book will help you configure and implement the necessary dimensions, master data, and hierarchies for both the Consolidation and the Planning components of BPC 10.0. The Building Blocks of BPC Understand the foundational architecture and data modeling process behind BPC with specific tasks and activities for configuration, planning, forecasting, and consolidation. Planning and Consolidation Integration Explore the unique implementation and configuration processes for each BPC component with technical coverage of BPC 10.0, EPM 10.0 and BW 7.3.Real-World Expertise meets Effective Business Solutions Expand the potential of your Planning and Consolidation solution with expert tips and tricks, all written so you can get the most out of BPC. Enhanced Reporting With transparent financial data, you can enable fast, accurate management and statutory reporting with the enhanced reporting component, EPM Excel Add-In and the new Script Logic Editor.

Don't just read about SAP BW - get your hands dirty with this updated, must-have guide. Tackle all of the common tasks you'll encounter when working with SAP BW, from creating objects, to extracting and transforming data, to mastering the BEx tools. Keep your skills sharp with information new to this edition, including updates for SAP BW 7.4 and BW on SAP HANA. Throughout the book, follow along with a comprehensive case study to cement your knowledge.

What does SAP HANA mean for you? This book is your introduction to all the essentials: from implementation options to the basics of data modeling and administration. With cutting-edge coverage of Smart Data Access, Vora, and more, this bestseller has everything you need to take your first steps with SAP HANA.

A guide to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence that can sharpen your data presentations. From creating a report, to displaying data via charts, to sharing reports with others, it covers everything from the basics to the actionable details that inform your work. It also includes expanded coverage of new topics like SAP HANA and mobility.

Enables you learn to carefully map your business' financial path. From planning through integration, this title helps you understand the business steps and requirements needed to work with SAP's solutions for enterprise performance management.

Learn how to configure the SAP Material Ledger to perform periodic actual costing, actual costing revaluations, and more Discover how the SAP Material Ledger calculates actual costs, and what it means for your business Master advanced SAP Material Ledger and actual costing functions If you are a controller, consultant, or cost accounting professional, then this is your comprehensive guide to using the SAP Material Ledger for actual costing! Here, you ll find the answers to how, why, and where to perform actual costing with the SAP Material Ledger to optimize your business practices. After a brief overview of how to configure the SAP Material Ledger, the book delves into more in-depth usages of actual costing and Material Ledger functionalities, such as using alternative valuation runs and actual costing cross-company code. Actual Costing Processes Learn about the different types of inventory valuation and how they can influence your business. Configuration Master SAP Material Ledger basic configuration. You will be able to carry inventory valuation in multiple currencies, and configure your system to work with more advanced tasks.Create Your Own Scenarios Follow along and recreate scenarios in your system, such as manufacturing variances, supply chain transfers, period-end closing processes, and more. Advanced Topics Discover how to display intercompany actual costs in the actual cost component split, as well as integrate the Material Ledger with CO-PA. Latest Releases Up to date for SAP ERP 6.0 enhancement package 5, so you can prepare your business for future changes and transitions. Highlights Product cost planning Actual costing runs Total cost absorption Purchase price variance Manufacturing and overhead variances Material price determination Single- and multilevel price determination COGS revaluation at actual cost WIP revaluation at actual cost Multiple valuations/transfer prices IFRS

• Make your SAP system run quickly and efficiently • Master core concepts like sizing, memory management, and database monitoring• Explore new topics such as SAP HANA, SAP Sybase ASE, and innovations in SAP NetWeaver AS Java• 7th Edition Updated for SAP NetWeaver 7. 3In today's high-stakes business environment, system performance is the king of the jungle. From system and load distribution, to memory management, to buffering and locks, you know there's a lot of ground to cover-and many pitfalls to avoid. Up to date for SAP NetWeaver 7.3, this authoritative guide to analysis and tuning offers the practical tips and real-world examples to reach your tuning potential day in and day out. Anticipate, identify, analyze, and solve performance problems to keep your SAP system on top.SAP BasisGet complete coverage of the SAP Basis hardware, database, memory configuration, and work processes to maximize system analysis and tuning.Analysis ToolsExplore the analysis and tuning tools integrated with SAP NetWeaver 7.3 and get previews of version 7.4. Everything JavaLearn to evaluate CPU performance and available memory, use the SAP Management Console, and clear memory with garbage collection in the SAP Java Virtual Machine.Databases and SQL ProcessingFrom SAP MaxDB to DB2 to SAP Sybase ASE, find the most important information about database monitoring and optimizing SQL statements.Performance Optimization with SAP HANAMake your SAP system faster, sleeker, and stronger with new SAP HANA technologies like in-memory and column-based data storage.Highlights• SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP and Java• Performance problem troubleshooting• Workload analysis• Remote function calls• Memory configuration• SQL statements, locks, and buffering• System architecture• SAP NetWeaver BW and queries• SAP Java Virtual Machine• Hardware sizing and system distribution• Main memory data with TREX and• SAP HANA• SAP Sybase ASE

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today’s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders. In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott—the CEO of the world’s largest business software company, SAP—chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to achieve audacious goals. Growing up in working-class Long Island, a sixteen-year-old Bill traded three hourly wage jobs to buy a small deli, which he ran by instinctively applying ideas that would be the seeds for his future success. After paying for and graduating college, Bill talked his way into a job selling copiers door-to-door for Xerox, where he went on to rank number one in every sales position he held and eventually became the company’s youngest-ever corporate officer. Eventually, Bill left Xerox and in 2002 became the unlikely president of SAP’s flailing American business unit. There, he injected enthusiasm and accountability into the demoralized culture by scaling his deli, sales, and management strategies. In 2010, Bill was named co-CEO, and in May 2014 became SAP’s sole, and first non-European, CEO. Colorful and fast-paced, Bill’s anecdotes contain effective takeaways: gutsy career moves; empathetic sales strategies; incentives that yield exceptional team performance; and proof of the competitive advantages of optimism and hard work. At the heart of Bill’s story is a blueprint for success and the knowledge that the real dream is the journey, not a preconceived destination.

Provides 100 little-known time-saving tips and tricks Features detailed instructions and guiding screenshots Presents practical, expert advice for system administrators Work smarter with authorizations! Have you ever had an unauthorized user access something in your system that you could have sworn was off limits? Here you go: SAP PRESS equips you with 100 Things that unlock the secrets of managing your security and authorizations in SAP. With this book, users of all levels will: Save time With the shortcuts and workarounds provided, you ll learn how to complete your daily authorizations and security tasks faster and more elegantly. Learn quickly Full of screenshots and instructions, this book will help you pick up new tips and tricks in no time, such as implementing effective auditing practices and better security. Develop new skills You ll discover new ways of doing your work and find yourself saying, I wish I d known how to do this a long time ago! Tip 93: You can increase your authorizations governance by revalidating your roles! At least once a year, authorizations administrators have to perform a roles revalidation to confi rm that the roles content is still correct.This tip will help you avoid the common technical errors and teach you how to prepare and document the role reporting to revalidate roles for the business. Find out more on page 309!